Essential Guide

Platform as a Service: Expert advice for selecting a PaaS vendor

Picking a Platform as a Service (PaaS) provider can be a nerve-wracking task. This guide offers articles, tips and other editor-selected content designed to help any organization find the right PaaS vendor.

Introduction

Navigating the fast-growing Platform-as-a-Service landscape can be tricky. This guide, packed with expert advice from SearchCloudApplications and other TechTarget sites, offers a roadmap for finding exactly the right PaaS vendor. Read the content, listen to the podcast, view the videos, browse the glossary -- and then test your knowledge with a quick PaaS quiz.

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PaaS basics: Questions and concepts

Learn about the challenges you'll face when making a move to Platform as a Service. Get a better understanding of PaaS vendor issues in these expert answers, tutorials and other content regarding PaaS from SearchCloudApplications and other TechTarget sites.

PaaS vendors have flooded the market with information -- some good, some bad. Contributor Adam Riglian discusses the questions that enterprise IT managers should ask their potential PaaS suitors. Continue Reading

Will your PaaS of choice interoperate with future Software as a Service (SaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) installments? Contributor Mark Szynaka explains how to find out -- before it's too late to turn back. Continue Reading

Managing your own development infrastructure takes time away from designing and coding. A move to PaaS can be helpful, even for a legacy development. But mobile app developer Dan Sullivan recommends keeping these considerations in mind. Continue Reading

Sinclair Schuller, CEO of enterprise PaaS company Apprenda, shares insights on the state of the current PaaS landscape. Continue Reading

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Making PaaS a success

Choosing PaaS is the first step. Learn the best way to achieve PaaS goals with strategies and tips from experts and users in this section. It covers all the service provider options, cloud database choices and much more.

Companies looking to invest in PaaS are faced with more options than ever before. Contributor Stephanie Mann describes Focus on cloud goals and developer needs to choose the right one. Continue Reading

The Platform-as-a-Service market is growing without a single leader or approach. As contributor Dan Sullivan notes, choosing a PaaS model should involve more than just saying, "Eeney, meeney, miney, moe." Continue Reading

Enterprise IT pros anxious about maintaining security and control in the public cloud are looking to private PaaS. But as cloud industry expert David Linthicum explains, the approach may not alleviate all worries. Continue Reading

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Top Criteria for Picking a PaaS Vendor

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